Night and Day by Ken White

Author:Ken White [White, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Blue Star
Published: 2013-12-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-one

I tried to sleep. I was certainly tired enough. But when I closed my eyes, sleep didn’t come. Only questions. Even the last of the pain pills didn’t do the trick.

The unique nature of my partnership with Joshua made it difficult for us to actually work with each other. It wasn’t that we were territorial about our cases. If I had a case that interested him, or he had one that interested me, we’d read through the case notes, ask questions, make suggestions. If his case needed something done in the daytime, I did it. If mine needed something done at night, I usually turned it over to him.

It worked out pretty well, and gave us an edge a lot of other small agencies didn’t have. But it probably stunted my education about what was going on in the city after the sun went down. When Joshua and I did have a chance to socialize, we didn’t talk shop. That was a rule. We had too little time to be friends, and once we started talking about the job, that quickly crowded out everything else.

Dowling was a good example. The case was strictly a night job, a Vee having problems with a Vee mob. I didn’t have the knowledge to help, and even if I did, neither side would have welcomed it. They were comfortable with Joshua. They wouldn’t have been comfortable with a bloodsac like me.

What I knew was based only on what I heard, from the news, from gossip on the street. It was enough for me to do the job when the job was finding missing people and doing background checks. It wasn’t enough to do what needed to be done now. I was sorely in need of a crash course on street life after the sun went down.

Sighing, I opened my eyes and sat up. I’d left the cell phone on the coffee table next to the couch. Picking it up, I pressed my thumb against the first button and put it to my ear.

It was answered in the middle of the first ring. “Area Operations,” a man said.

“Charlie Welles. Can you patch me through to Tiffany Takeda?”

“Standby,” he said. “Transferring.”

The phone clicked twice. “Takeda,” she said.

“Welles. How’s it going?”

“We’re making progress,” she said. “Chelsea’s last name is Wilkins, not Marsch, though she and Jedron Marsch are natural siblings. Their father died while on active duty with the Marine Corps. The mother was pregnant with Chelsea at the time, remarried two years later, and Chelsea took the stepfather’s name. Marsch retained his father’s name. Mother and stepfather deceased, mother during the war, stepfather in Camp Alpha-10. The girl’s apartment was unoccupied, though she has clearly been living there with a male companion. We haven’t located her yet, but my teams are going door-to-door, and she has been seen in the neighborhood in the past 12 to 14 hours. We are . . . optimistic that we’ll locate her soon.”

“Stay on it,” I said. “Put more people out there if you have to.

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